Daily Archives: 8.5.2013

Name.com suffers breach, credit card data accessed, encryption in place (phew!)

Domain registrar and web hosting company Name.com, part of the Demand Media group, has suffered a data breach. Crooks have apparently made off with data up to and including credit card numbers…but it sounds as though everything was encrypted, which is a silver lining. more…

Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack

Testing company Ixia launches high-volume DDoS tests against F5 firewalls. read more more…

Study: US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment

The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at risk by exposing agencies to faulty parts and to the possibility that producing nations will stop selling vital items, according to a new report from the Alliance for American Manufacturing. read more more…

How do you prevent default script attacks?

What steps should be taken to make websites secure against default script attacks? more…

Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks

Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other countries that allegedly support cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, the lawmakers said Wednesday. read more more…

Speed test of quantum versus conventional computing: Quantum computer wins

A quantum computer system is “thousands of times faster” than conventional computing in solving an important problem type, a computer science professor finds. more…

Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to the Netherlands

A 35-year-old Dutchman suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on antispam organization Spamhaus was extradited from Spain to the Netherlands on Monday evening, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said Wednesday. read more more…

Google’s Schmidt: what we need is an internet "Delete" button

The wouldn’t-it-be-nice fix would take care of the sticky situations we’re getting into (and Google’s getting sued about) with our personal data getting sucked up by companies and advertisers. Another fanciful idea that actually makes a lot of sense: changing our name at the age of 18, as Schmidt mused. more…

Use of ‘honeywords’ can expose password crackers

Researchers propose foiling password thieves by salting password databases with red herrings called 'honeywords.' read more more…

London Gatwick Airport takes out 200 servers, moves to cloud, BYOD

Airport's IT transformation to cloud, BYOD support is saving money, boosting security. read more more…

New eLion Adviser

The server support team took one server off the load after seeing some critical errors in the log from that server. They are working on why only this particular server is having an issue. more…

You’re doing passwords wrong. Here’s how to make them uncrackable.

McAfee shares some tips on creating hack-proof passwords. read more more…

Lack of Chip and PIN technology leaves US shoppers and diners at risk from hackers

Despite being one of the biggest economies for the retail and ‘food and beverage’ industries, the US lacks basic card protection that could prevent data thieves from Americans’ bank accounts. more…

Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software

The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security updates on Tuesday to address a highly critical vulnerability that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on susceptible servers. read more more…

SSCC 108 – WW2 crypto, Bitcoin mining, internet cameras, password breaches [PODCAST]

Chester calls home from Interop in Las Vegas to record the latest episode of the Sophos Security Chet Chat. Join Chester and guest Paul Ducklin in their regular quarter-hour podcast as they laugh about (and lament) the latest goings-on in the world of computer security. more…

‘Next’ iPhone display production to begin

A Japan-based report indicates that production of at least one key component for the next iPhone will begin next month. Sharp will begin volume production in June of the display “panel” for the “next” iPhone model at its Kameyama plant in Mie prefecture, according to a report in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, a major Japanese industrial […] more…

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